From the journal

The Freeway is Open: A Call to End 14 Years in Separate Realities

October 3, 2025

Mother’s plea to my children. Wife’s plea to my husband. Daughter’s plea to my parents.


A Message to My Children: Bridging Parallel Worlds
To my dearest children,
I am writing this not to the people you may have been told you are, but to the souls I know you to be. You are alive. I am alive. We share the same reality, yet for 14 years, we have been living in what feels like parallel worlds.
You were taken down a path that was not the one a loving mother chooses for her child. A path paved with fear, dependency, and untruths, specifically designed to confuse and isolate. While you were learning one concept of the world, I was walking another—a world where truth, dignity, and love were the only guides. I refuse to surrender my spirit to manipulation or bullying, and I held onto the core truth that a family’s bond is sacred.
The Crooked Road vs. The Free Way
I know you haven’t simply forgotten me or chosen to stay away; you have been led to believe that this distance is necessary, perhaps even right. But that belief is the core of the deception. The path you have been on is a crooked and deceptive road, prepared for those meant to be lost. It is a world where lies have been served as sustenance.
My world, however, is a freeway. It is open, it is honest, and it is waiting for you.
You are adults now. You are legal individuals with the full right to shape your world as it was always meant to be. It is time to recognize that you have been eating lies for 14 years. No normal family lives like this, treating a loving parent as a stranger or an outcast. Our connection is not about money—I am poor, but that is not the problem—it is about communication, love, and respect.
The Bridge to Our Reality
We don’t have to wait for the next chapter; we can start a new book right now. To bridge our two realities, we have to simply come to one another, as if the 14 years of injustice never existed. We have to make the choice to tear down the wall that was built between us.
You know my address. I am publishing it openly. It is up to you to gather your mental strength and take back the wheel from the community that has steered you wrong. Turn your vehicle onto the freeway, towards your mother.
In this country, bullying and threats are illegal. You have the right to choose your own life, and the law protects the right of biological and first families to be together. I came to the USA as your mother and a legal guardian; my life was stolen, my husband went missing, and my status was exploited. I have lost my home and my income, but I saved my honor, my dignity, and my faith. I never gave up on you or on justice.
We do not have to speak up to a vacuum online. We have to speak up to the people who want to listen. And I want to listen to you. I want to know your story, not the one you were told to believe, but the one you felt in your heart.
Just come to me. Just gather your courage. Dial my number and say, “Mom, it’s me.”
The choice is yours. The bridge is waiting.
With endless love,
Your Mom

Galina Nelson